Bedspread
- Object Name:
- Bedspread
- Object ID:
- 1999.040.121.5
- Date:
- 1880-1910
- Description:
- Coverlet. Marseilles heavy cotton, white on white raised and woven design. Central floral pattern, surrounded by rectangle, surrounded by outer floral pattern. Marseilles coverlet of white cotton, machine-woven to imitate quilting, with a design of diagonal floral stripes through the center surrounded by a straight-sided frame that is filled with stylized floral and quatrefoil motifs. The outer border design consists of leafy fronds. The sides are selvedge and the top and bottom edges are hemmed by hand.
- Material:
- Textile
Cotton - Dimensions:
- W-85.5 L-89.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Part of the bedroom furnishing used by Annalee Davis as a girl, when she lived with her grandparents on Centre St. in Concord, N.H., mid-1920s to 1930s; Annalee and her mother and sisters moved in with her mother's parents (Ladd), after the death of Annalee's father. Annalee reminisced that her doll-making business began in that Concord bedroom, as she invited friend over to help her make dolls.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Annalee Davis Thorndike
- Subjects:
- Bedspreads, Textiles, Weaving
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